Best 70's Disaster Extravaganza?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: Best 70's Disaster Extravaganza?

[bigwillq]

1. I've always been fond of Airport

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. And, of course, its bastard child,

"Airplane." One of the funniest movies ever.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

"I like my coffee black. Like my men." Some lines are just better when delivered by a 6 year old girl.

[bigwillq]

6. Yes, That movie is a riot

:hi:

[Texasgal]

2. The Poseidon Adventure

One of my favorites!

[hickman1937]

5. Airplane!

It was filmed in 1979. so technically it qualifies.

[andjustice4all]

7. Watergate

Ford 1976
and his pardon of the criminal

[jmowreader]

8. Irwin Allen was the MAN!

I have The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno on DVD and find myself watching one of those two movies at least once a week. The Towering Inferno is in right now.

I don't have Earthquake. I saw it in a theatre that had the system that shook your seat when the earthquake hit. Great fun.

I like Inferno better than Poseidon in these disturbed times; it is an allegory for the Republican Party. Poseidon showed a bit of Republicanesque greed, but the disaster wasn't really anyone's fault--they were taking the ship to Cyprus to be scrapped and decided to load it up with paying passengers; the 90-foot tsunami hit and capsized the ship. Inferno was totally someone's fault: they put the building up as cheap as they possibly could, violated just about every fire-safety regulation regarding storeroom maintenance, and the joint burned to the ground during the dedication ceremony.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. I think the word you are looking for is SENSURROUND.

As in, Earthquake: In SENSURROUND!

[Cush]

9. "Meteor" with Sean Connery

[no_hypocrisy]

11. If "Towering Inferno" were made today, you'd see these changes:

1. William Holden (owner of the building) would be sympathetic for not wanting to pay "too much" to construct an unsafe building. And he would be right not to stop the party just because of an annoying fire.
2. Richard Chamberlin would have been Holden's favorite son-in-law for saving his boss/father-in-law all that money in using cheap electrical products. And he'd get Faye Dunaway to meet him "for lunch" notwithstanding Paul Newman and the fact that RC's married to her sister.
3. Paul Newman (architect) would be the heavy for being caught in putting electrical equipment as per environmental and safety control and not being innovative enough to find a cheaper way to turn on the lights. In fact, the whole project would have been held up were it not for those nasty government regulations that promote safety.
4. Steven McQueen (Fire Marshall) would not be at the scene. He'd be "commanding" the situation from a safe place and would blame anyone and everyone else for the fire spreading. And he wouldn't give a damn how anyone designed a building. More fires mean more work.
5. Fred Astaire would garner sympathy, not because Jennifer Jones died at the end, but because he missed a great chance to sell her worthless stock, and now all he has is a cat.